Professional Merit Award 2026
Memory and Legacy - Base Year: 2025
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The Brazilian Academy of History and Literature (ABHL) hereby announces the Call for Nominations for the Professional Merit Award 2026 — Memory and Legacy (Base Year: 2025), intended to recognize professionals and initiatives that, throughout 2025, have distinguished themselves through technical excellence, integrity, educational, social, cultural, or community impact, and service to the common good.
The Award is part of ABHL’s honors architecture at the Memory and Legacy level: it is a classic, selective, and annual distinction, intended to consecrate what endures: the lasting mark of responsible, coherent work that is useful to society.
ABHL understands that merit has scales and times of maturation; for this reason, the Awards are meant to record, in institutional language, what has become a reference in the period evaluated.
By its nature, this honor is by nomination only. The proposal must be submitted by a third party and undergoes academic review. The procedure is conducted with rigor, discretion, and institutional verification, preserving the nominee’s reputation and the seriousness of the rite.
This is an honorary and institutional recognition, conferred by a cultural Academy on the basis of criteria of merit, impact, and integrity.
TARGET AUDIENCE
The following may be nominated for the Professional Merit Award 2026:
Professionals with proven activity whose performance in 2025 reveals excellence and public responsibility;
Initiatives, projects, organizations, or collectives (with or without CNPJ registration), provided they present verifiable results in the base year (2025) and a clear contribution to the common good.
Eligible fields are the areas aligned with the Academic Sections of ABHL — fields in which intellectual, cultural, technical, and social contributions are recognized, preserved, and recorded:
Letters and Literature;
History, Memory, Genealogy, and Cultural Heritage;
Theology and Philosophy;
Visual Arts and Design;
Music;
Performing Arts, Audiovisual Arts, and Cultural Production;
Sport and Physical Education;
Education and Pedagogy;
Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Therapies, and Human Development;
Family, Childhood, and Life Cycles;
Health Sciences and Medical Humanities;
Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences, Technology, and Innovation;
Law, Statecraft, and International Relations;
Public Policy, Management, and Governance;
Economics, Administration, and Accounting;
Communication, Media, and Public Opinion;
Social Sciences, Solidarity, and Community Action;
Business and Entrepreneurship.
In conferring the Award, ABHL seeks to:
Distinguish professionals and initiatives whose work in 2025 has elevated their field through excellence and integrity.
Value contributions with real and verifiable impact — social, cultural, educational, or formative — and relevance to the community.
Record trajectories and actions that deserve to stand as an institutional reference, forming the memory and legacy of the period evaluated.
Strengthen the culture of merit and public responsibility, reaffirming high standards of ethics, authorship, and consistency.
Preserve and disseminate the value of well-executed work as a cultural asset: that which forms people, builds communities, and guides generations.
RULES
To preserve the institutional seriousness of the honors rite, the following rules apply:
Truthfulness and consistency
The proposer (author of the nomination) declares that the information and evidence submitted are true, verifiable, and sufficient to support the proposal.
Mandatory evidence
The nomination must contain verifiable elements: records, publications, portfolio, reports, certifications, news items, official links, and/or formal testimonials; in the case of a project, a clear description of actions and results is required.
Merit criteria (basis for the Review):
The Evaluation Committee will consider, among other aspects:
consistency of activity (trajectory and results);
integrity (ethics, respect for the person, public responsibility);
social/cultural/educational or formative impact, with real and verifiable benefit;
relevance to the community (reach, transformation, legacy);
coherence between the activity and the field indicated.
Prohibitions (immediate dismissal)
Nominations will not be accepted:
with defamatory or unsubstantiated content;
with false, manipulated, or unattributed materials;
whose purpose is direct commercial advertising, without demonstrated merit.
Discretion and reputational protection
ABHL conducts the procedure with confidentiality, avoiding undue exposure. The internal process seeks to protect both the nominee and the proposer, keeping the rite to an academic standard.
Honor Granted
HONOR EXCLUSIVELY BY NOMINATION
Laurels conferred by nomination are exclusive in nature and cannot be submitted by the candidates themselves;
The nomination must be made by a third party and will be submitted for consideration by the Evaluation Committee;
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Professional Merit Award 2026?
It is an honorary and institutional distinction of ABHL, at the CondecorAção level (Memory and Legacy), intended to record and recognize, with academic rigor, outstanding professionals and initiatives in the base year 2025.
Who can be nominated?
Professionals and initiatives with verifiable results in 2025, in the areas covered by the Academic Sections of ABHL.
Who can nominate?
The nomination must be made by a third party. ABHL values proposers who can describe the merit clearly and present consistent evidence.
Can the nominee self-nominate?
Not in this process. The Professional Merit Award, in this edition, is by nomination only.
Which elements weigh most in the evaluation?
Consistency, integrity, and real, verifiable impact: benefit generated, relevance to the community, coherence between activity and the field indicated, and ethical reputation.
Is there any prohibition that leads to immediate dismissal?
Yes: defamatory content, lack of substantiation, false/manipulated/unattributed material, and nominations intended as direct commercial advertising, without demonstrated merit.
What happens after the nomination is submitted?
There is a screening and preliminary verification. When applicable, the nominee will be invited to register their ACCEPTANCE, allowing the Committee to proceed with the technical analysis and the issuance of the Review.
Why is there an Institutional Fee? When does it apply?
It is formalized after the nominee’s ACCEPTANCE and makes possible the institutional certification, academic registration, and administrative handling of the conferral and documentation.
Is the process public?
ABHL conducts the procedure with discretion and to an institutional standard, preserving the nominee’s reputation and the integrity of the rite.
TERMS OF THE CALLPROFESSIONAL MERIT AWARD 2026Memory and Legacy — Base Year: 2025
I — Purpose
This Call establishes general rules for the receipt, review, deliberation, and formalization of nominations for the Professional Merit Award 2026, intended to recognize, on an honorary and institutional basis, professionals and initiatives that distinguished themselves in the base year 2025.
II — Nature of the Honor
The Award is an honorary and institutional distinction, conferred by academic deliberation.
The Award does not constitute professional certification, nor does it replace accreditations, professional councils, or professional registrations.
III — Eligibility and Scope
Professionals and initiatives with verifiable results in the base year 2025, in the areas covered by the Academic Sections of ABHL, may be nominated.
The honor is by nomination only, submitted by a third party.
IV — Nomination and Documentation
The nomination must contain an objective description of the merit and documentary evidence consistent with the nature of the activity nominated.
ABHL may request additional information or clarification when necessary.
V — Stages of the Process
The rite proceeds, in general terms, as follows:
a) Receipt and document screening of the nomination;
b) Preliminary validation of consistency and fit;
c) Acceptance by the nominee (a condition for proceeding, when applicable);
d) Technical analysis and institutional research;
e) Deliberation and issuance of the Technical Review;
f) Formal notice of the result;
g) Final formalities and institutional registration.
VI — Results
The result may be:
Granted (honor approved), or
Denied (honor not conferred in the cycle reviewed).
VII — Declarations and Responsibilities
The proposer declares that the content submitted is true.
By agreeing to proceed, the nominee authorizes the institutional processing and may be asked to validate information necessary for registration.
VIII — Institutional Fee (after ACCEPTANCE)
Once the nominee’s ACCEPTANCE has been confirmed and after the signing of the HONOR CONFERRAL AND ACCEPTANCE AGREEMENT, the Institutional Fee will be formalized, intended for institutional certification, academic registration, and the administrative costs of the conferral and documentation process.
This stage applies only to processes that advance to formalization, enabling the issuance and provision of official documents.
IX — General Provisions
Matters not provided for herein will be resolved by the competent bodies of ABHL.
It is recommended that this page be read in full before the nomination is submitted.